And another question. Is it possible to the inverse of border masking with surface scatter? What i w

And another question. Is it possible to the inverse of border masking with surface scatter? What i want is to scatter larger grass clumps on the majority of a mesh (except the borders) and smaller more detailed grass meshes along the border

SSitta And another question. Is it possible to the inverse of border masking with surfa...

Adnan Chaumette•9/3/24, 8:54 PM

Yes, border masking is support

open the menu of the Border Offset, then click on Invert Mask.

Adnan Chaumette•9/3/24, 8:55 PM

We've made masking a bit more discrete in this new release, and will further adjust it + other small UI changes after 1.8.0 is out.

SittaOP•9/4/24, 12:30 PM

What about the tag question?

SittaOP•9/4/24, 12:30 PM

should this be possible and i'm just not using it right? basically i want to search multiple tags to narrow down the search.

SSpeedlaneMedia please is there dash for Apple Silicon M2 ? thats what i'm currently for UE5.4, ...

Adnan Chaumette•9/5/24, 3:38 AM

We only support Windows for the time being, which means no Apple devices.

Raphael Sanguinete•9/6/24, 1:36 AM

Hi guys,

How is the best way to handle backing up the Dash Content Library (Computed/Tagged Assets)?

I have to install a new SSD as my main Windows drive, so I will re-install Unreal and Dash in this new Windows instalation in this new SSD.

I don't want to lose the Library Assets that are already Computed/Tagged (and some manually tagged by me afterwards) because we now have the Tag Limits and I've already computed a lot of assets.

The Dash Content Library Folder (Library Path) is in my secondary Drive (D:).

So, if:

- I install new Windows in new SSD
- Re-install Unreal and Dash in the new Windows
- Put the Dash Content Library Path in this new Dash installation for my already computed Library Folder in D: (that will remain unchanged)

That will work? Is the better process to achieve this backup behavior?

P.S.: The Unreal project itself will be the same, but the project itself I will restore from Git.

JJacob I'm having a little bit of trouble understanding how object assignment works. I...

DanielFreden (Dash for UE5)•9/6/24, 7:07 AM

Hey! Soo, you have two options for using Path Scatter, or Surface scatter for that matter.
1. Select your curve, select one or several assets from the Dash content library and drag them in while holding CTRL, then select scatter on selection, that will create a path Scatter for you. This options also places the original assets in the world, but they are default hidden. Right now we need to do this, even though it is a little bit wasteful yes, we are looking into solving it though

2. You search for Path Scatter in Dash, open it up and then assign curve and objects that exists inside the world already.

So no difference performance wise right now, it is more of a workflow option. And as you say, deleting the curve, or the original objects in the scene, will break the tool connection yes

JJacob Are the Scale Properties in Path Scatter intentionally locked to only allow up 1...

DanielFreden (Dash for UE5)•9/6/24, 8:23 AM

Afaik the limit has always been 5.0 and not 1.0, so that's strange, but maybe it was 1.0 in one build. Regardless, we have just added back the ability to manually write higher values than the default limit, so you should be getting that ability in the next Beta version!

Can you check in the main dash menu what RC version you have?

Night Contraband•9/10/24, 6:10 PM

Hey does anybody know how to fix this? I've been importing things just fine and all of a sudden i get this message

Ascenial•9/11/24, 12:04 AM

does someone have a png of the dash logo?

Ascenial•9/11/24, 12:05 AM

@Adnan - Founder/CEO

Adnan Chaumette•9/11/24, 12:15 AM

Not sure which one you need, so here ya go

AAdnan Chaumette Not sure which one you need, so here ya go 😅

Ascenial•9/11/24, 12:51 AM

do you have one without a background perchance?

Ascenial•9/11/24, 12:51 AM

if not its cool i can make it work

AAscenial do you have one without a background perchance?

Adnan Chaumette•9/11/24, 12:52 AM

here ya go!

JJacob Just curious, what is this logo meant to represent? I see an A, maybe an arrow p...

Adnan Chaumette•9/11/24, 12:52 AM

Just an A with a line across

I did a slightly fancier arrow back when I was making it, but ended up with something simpler

AAdnan Chaumette here ya go!

Ascenial•9/11/24, 1:05 AM

thanks w

Daniel (Dash)•9/11/24, 8:31 AM

I thought is was a D and an A together

LLazy but talented hey guys, do we have a boder test mode when scattering? like we have a stone str...

DanielFreden (Dash for UE5)•9/11/24, 1:07 PM

Hey @Lazy but talented Let me get back to you on this, I know we have been talking about a solution for this, but not sure if anything has been implemented yet in Surface Scatter, I know we have it for Path Scatter in 1.8, but that is not very helpful for your use case here

LLazy but talented Got it, wish to hear good news. Manually adjusting this is really time-consuming...

DanielFreden (Dash for UE5)•9/11/24, 1:38 PM

For sure!
Not sure if helpful or not, but you could use Surface Scatter with lower density to make sure there is no overlap and then fill in the rest manually, but as I write it it sounds stupid

But we do at least have Border Masking that can help you remove the flat stones from the border. So maybe a bit helpful at least!

I asked the devs about the overlap question, and we will try to look into it in the near future, but it seems it is not as easy to fix as I believed

SSantiDarkG hey team, for a second activation for my laptop, what I need to do ?

DanielFreden (Dash for UE5)•9/11/24, 6:36 PM

Hey!
If you send me your email in a DM, I can activate that tomorrow for you

aoshi11•9/12/24, 2:28 AM

love the new ui btw

LLazy but talented looks like this

aoshi11•9/12/24, 2:31 AM

i can only think that these stones have a sort of check via bounds or other complex collision check then if hit, scale them down or rotate on an axis or replace with another smaller mesh from the list, reiterate til no bounds/collision are touching, but yeah im not a programmer haha

Maybe_Jamie•9/12/24, 5:29 PM

Hey!
In one of the tutorials the guy scatters plants around an object just by selecting an object and the scattered material and clicking a button but I don't seem to have the same button, can someone please help? I would really appreciate it!
I circled the botton I am talking about above and the on the right is my screen. I want to scatter things on a surface around an object

Ascenial•9/13/24, 2:58 AM

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1160522353919410316/1283983493113712660/dash_test.mp4?ex=66e4fa50&is=66e3a8d0&hm=ac4c12bd072b3046fe9703a540c918242a6d766718a8bb926424b2dbacee50fa&

Ascenial•9/13/24, 2:59 AM

making a title card for my trailer and came up with this cool effect

MMaybe_Jamie Hey! In one of the tutorials the guy scatters plants around an object just by se...

DanielFreden (Dash for UE5)•9/13/24, 4:36 AM

Hey! That icon is from a very old version of Dash actually! Now in order to scatter things around an object, you need to open up the full Surface Scatter tool, scroll down to proximity masking and assign your object in there!

In order to update Surface Scatter, you select the scatter result, and click on the icon left of your circled on

Btw, quick tip, you can try the Dash 1.8 beta instead of Dash 1.7, for 1.8, we have a great getting started guide here: https://docs.polygonflow.io/
Download 1.8 beta here: https://polygonflow.io/download-latest-beta

Dash Documentation | Dash Documentation

AAscenial https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1160522353919410316/1283983493113712660/d...

DanielFreden (Dash for UE5)•9/13/24, 4:36 AM

That's awesome!

Night Contraband•9/13/24, 4:32 PM

quick question. I was checking my installed apps and seen "Dash" twice. Im guessing this is because the first time that I installed dash I only had one version of UE, now I have two so I had to re install dash. My question is do I need to keep both of these if I want them for both versions of UE or can I delete the first installation?

NNight Contraband quick question. I was checking my installed apps and seen "Dash" twice. Im guess...

DanielFreden (Dash for UE5)•9/13/24, 7:07 PM

You only need one, it is an bug that you get several

In 1.8 we will make sure this bug not occurs again

DDanielFreden (Dash for UE5)Hey! That icon is from a very old version of Dash actually! Now in order to scat...

Maybe_Jamie•9/13/24, 9:06 PM

Thank you so so so much I was so confused!

This helps a lot!!

And another question. Is it possible to the inverse of border masking with surface scatter? What i w

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